True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
Hinterkaifeck Murders
A small farm outside the Ingolstadt in Germany, was the place of mysterious murder. Six months earlier the maid left her position stating that the house was haunted, later the residents...
Jack the Ripper
A series of 5 horrible murders of prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. Whitechapel in the 19th century was a dark place full of immigrants, prostitution and poor...
Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders were a series of killings in and around the city of Texarkana in 1946. An unknown masked killer called the Phantom Killer attacked 8 people, out of which 5 died.
Great mysteries
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...
Bigfoot sightings
Bigfoot is an ape-like creature that supposedly lives in the forests in different regions of the United States. The story of Bigfoot is in many points similar to the yeti.
The Somerton Man
In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.
Mary Celeste
In 1872, in the middle of the Atlantic, the ship Marie Celeste was found abandoned by the crew. The ship was undamaged, there were no signs of any kind of violence on board, and the...
Controversial theories
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...
9/11 attacks
Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...
JFK assassination
American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...
Moon landing conspiracy
After Apollo 11 was shown landing on the Moon on July 20th 1969 as the first manned mission, instantly the conspiracy theories popped up that it was just a staged show for the public and Russians.
Unexplained phenomena
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...
Ghost stories
Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...
High Rock event
In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...
Dyatlov Pass incident
Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...
Crime and mystery movies
The Lady Vanishes 1938
Passengers of a train get stuck in a mountain village due to avalanches that covered the tracks with snow. When they resume their journey, one of the passengers seems to be missing.
Quiet Is the Night 1978
The police commissioner takes over the serial child killer case, but his teenage son, trying to impress him, begins his own investigation.
Mysteria 2011
Once a famous screenwriter, now down on his luck, becomes a prime suspect in a murder case.
Black Coal, Thin Ice 2014
In 1999 dismembered body of coal worker is found scattered on different coal depots. Detective Zhang finds a suspect, who is killed in shoot-out. Five years later similar victim is found.